What is Lubuntu?

Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional distribution. Lubuntu specifically targets older machines with lower resources, but also runs great on newer hardware. Along with a simple but usuable graphical user interface, Lubuntu comes with a wide variety of applications chosen for their small footprint so you can browse, email, chat, play, and be productive.

What’s improved since 16.04?

We now ship with Linux Kernel 4.8.

General bug fix release as we prepare to switch to LXQt.

LXDE components have been updated with bug fixes.

The artwork has received an update.

System Requirements

Lubuntu is a good operating system for many old computers, but not for all of them. Some computers have too little horsepower or memory. A rule of thumb is that the computer should not be more than 10 years old.

24 thoughts on “Lubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Released!”

I have a one year old, but very cheap PC and wanted to install a distribution based on Pacman packet manager and LXDE, so I tried Archlinux, Antergos, Majori, and they all froze my computer. Then I tried Mint, but it was also freezing!

Lubuntu was the only to work flawlessly!!

Keep the good project!

I would like to donate to Lubuntu so your project can keep growing, but I didnt find anything for this (only general Ubuntu donation, but I really want to send the money specifcally to Lubuntu).

I’m new to Linux. I installed Lubuntu with no problems. I can go online with Firefox browser with no problems but find it a bit slow so I installed Chromium-browser but it won’t go online. I get Ah snap msg instead. I’ve tried uninstalling & reinstalling the browser but it did not work. Any suggestions?

I think that I will stay on the latest LTS release (16.04.1) for now… can you update your download page for Lubuntu 14.04.5, you still only have 14.04.4 available in the Downloads section of the website.

I see after downloading and spending countless hours trying to configure a printer, Ubuntu is not much closer to being a usable OS by the masses unless you are a computer science egghead. Instead of writing a bunch of wacky distros ,why wont the Linux community just try to solve peoples problems? By the way Canon pixar MG3620.
Could not find anything in updates.

Lubuntu was a very pleasant surprise to me after my last experience with Linux in 2006-2008. It seems lot of good work has been done. I want to donate to you guys to continue improving. Please post some data or local representations. Do you have representative in Bulgaria?

Installed Lubuntu Yakkety Yak successfully on a 2.66 Mhz Celeron with 1gb ram. So far, with only software updates, added MPplayer, restricted extras I have had no performance issues.
This is encouraging. Well done to the developers.

Love Lubuntu 16.04. Installed on ASUS X51L, 2GB RAM – perfectly working. Then I tried on HP 2570p, works fine, apart from youtube when I experienced screen tearing and horizontal lines. It could be related to intel graphics. Considering to try 16.10…

16.10 Lubuntu 32 bit does not update correctly:
It´s a fruitless endeavor, no matter which Server
is “automatically” or manually chosen. I see that over
90+ MB is said to be updateable, & further that portions are
from “untrusted” sources [Intel graphics Updater 2.0.4 ?? ]
Thereafter presents two options: CANCEL or OK
— Neither of which work —